Geek Syndicate

Rich takes a break as Flint and Stace go through progs 1677, 1678 and 1679. Nuff Said!'

This episode the team takes a look at the various ways women have been represented in fantasy, sci-fi and horror.Touching on themes of independence, the power of sexuality, roles in fictional societies and how we identify with the characters, we skate a meandering path across the surface of this vast topic.Books mentioned include... She, Monstrous Regement, Lord Of The Rings, The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, Audition, Dead Until Dark, Carmilla, Revelation Space, Heaven's Net Is Wide.Amongst the chin-stroking and cod intellectual comments we learn a valuable lesson concerning the consumption of beer and ice-cream, fail utterly to mention Ursula LeGuin (doh!) or Angela Carter (double-doh!), and continue our tradition of mis-remembering key plot points.Dion is calling from the moon, so please excuse his sound quality.By the way, does anyone know where Mattie is?He's got big soft eyes, fluffy ears and a bald fat head.  There's £5 reward if returned unmolested.

Welcome to Small Press Big Mouth Episode 18. This episode Stace waxes lyrical about all things Hi Ex and reviews a couple of books she picked up there. Lee just about manages to squeeze a couple of words in edgeways to tell you about Bulletproof and Turf. Happy listening!

News: The guys discuss Gears of War 3, Sony's Summer of 3D, the X-COM relaunch amongst other items. Feature: We look at the trend of having codes to access certain extra features in games to encourage retail sales and the new DRM methods employed in the likes of Assassin's Creed 2 on PC Reviews: See what we thought about Red Steel 2, Bioshock 2 and the Multiplayer aspect of Battlefield Bad Company 2.

'This time the Trans-Penine Duo of Kehaar and Grampus look at Corporate Empires in geek fiction - mainly focusing on Weyland-Yutani from the Aliens Franchaise but also looking at such things as RDA (Avatar), Lunar Industries (Moon) as well as Pirates of the Carribbean, Jennifer Government, Lexcorp and others. We also look at such real world examples of self governing corporate colonies as the East India Company, Cecil Rhodes and International Africa Association. We then look at the narrative role these Empires perform and what treatment the Corprorate Empire could undergo in the future. There may be some spoilers. Enjoy

With Dave off on his travels again (something about getting married) Barry is joined by fellow podcaster, the lovely Stacey Whittle for this episode. News Eagle awards nominations now open Lucasfilm developing stars wars comedy Going Postal on sky one Week That Was Hellblazer Dark Entries Hope for the Future True Blood A Team trailer   Main We take a look at the very first episode of the new series of Doctor Who. Enjoy and congrats to the newlyweds Mr and Mrs Monteith

Another round of news and review from the world of gaming. Reviews in this episode Heavy Rain Dante's Inferno God of War 3 Just Cause 2 Battlefield Bad Company 2

"After a brief schizo moment from Kehaar the Geeksyndicate networks Professors of Poncy-Poncy get to grips with the Superpower of Oceanina from George Orwell's 1984. All the likely suspects are tackled but somehow Babylon 5, TNG, Original Star Trek, Idiotcracy and The Dark Knight Returns all feature in the ID parade.   Guests stars via e Power of Note by Intro-Girl and massive Tekker Girl.   Comments and feedback as always welcome.   Kehaar completed the Liverpool Half rathon in a not bad for a fat lad time of 2 hours and 7 minutes if you wish to sponsor http://www.justgiving.com/Andrew-Clark1 and remember if you give a man a fish it will feed him for a day, but if you give him a net he can start on a Sea Devil cosplay.   The Comic Forum project details are here http://www.thecomicforums.com/forum2//index.php?showtopic=166930"  

  News Captain America casting news Team Comicana  King Arthur gets a modern spin   Week That Was Forty-Five Doctor Who - Fugitive New Doctor who trailers New Moon   Main We conclude our look at the upcoming TV Pliots.  

Chapter 3 – in which our cast, thoroughly exhausted, whiffle on endlessly about a variety of monsters in adapted genre fiction.Epilogue – in which all is brought to a satisfactory end, and some heavy-handed hints are dropped regarding the Scrolls Book Group.

Chapter 2 – in which the nature of the Anti-hero is explained and explored to some depth, with reference to a multitude of books.

Ok folks, here’s Scrolls Episode 2 for your listening pleasure. It comes with our sincere apologies – not for the content, you understand (we like that) but for the huge delay in getting it out to you.  Gremlins.  Let’s just leave it at that. In an effort to cater to our lunch-time listeners we are trialling a new bite-sized Chapter format.  Let us know what you think on the forums. Chapter 1 – in which, despite proverbial advice, books are indeed judged by their covers and someone is revealed to have eaten cat food.

In this very late episode (sorry) the guys look at progs 1674-76 and discuss important topics such as vengeance fisting and whether it's wrong to fancy your sister. As always expect spoilers and language not suitable for the kiddies

Join Dave and Barry as they celebrate their 150th Episode! News Green Lantern Starts Filming,Team Comicana,Secret Wars in the Shetlands! and SGU news   Week That Was Black Panther, Lost, Siege issue 2 and Caprica Main A Spoiler free and a Spoiler filled review of the the Kick Ass comic and the movie adaptation.

What's this an episode of Small Press Big Mouth out on time? Yes, yes it is and covering diverse and wonderous comics such as Trenchfoot, Crossed, Crystal Clear and Doctor McNinja where else would you go for all your small and indie press needs? Also featuring music from the utterly fabulous The Stillwells you lucky, lucky people!

News: * Lara Croft Gets a Road * Online Gaming On the Up * Plants Vs Zombies Sales * The Sony Playstation Move * 3D Gaming in June?   Demos: * Just Cause 2   Buy Rent Avoid * Aliens Vs Predator * Borderlands * Dragon Age: Origins * X-Men Origins: Wolverine

'This week Kehaar and Grampus wrestle with the slow kid in the Babylon 5 class - the Earth Alliance. With particular attention to the Earth-Minbar War and the Clark Civil War they buffet between topics including space colonisation, first contact and relative scales of unpleasantness in war.   We apologise for delays in recording due to 'When Babies Attack' events.   No damn shirt collars disappeared or went to Zah'um in the making of this episode.     Now get the hell listenng our podcast!   An ISN special report confirms Kehaar is doing the Liverpool Half Marathon if you want you can sponsor him hear http://www.justgiving.com/Andrew-Clark1   TWGNN is also willing to sponsor a  Comic Forum project - details on the Geeksyndicate forum an executivue summary below from Bluemeanie:   "Ok, short version - if we get enough teams to warrant doing it, we were after short comic stories of up to 10 pages max. The theme at the moment is just nerd-life, but this might change if the forum gets fixed and people can actuall

In this episode, Rich and a virtual Flint talk to 2000AD's Graphic Novels editor Keith Richardson after bitching about not being able to get certain trades in the last one. Wanna know whats coming out over the next year? Wanna know how the Meg stories will feature in the Case Files? Wanna know who's been cast as Dredd in the movie? Its all here... well, apart from the last bit anyway.

  News  Smallville gets another season  24 on the way out A new superhero drame from the creators of Being Human   Week That Was Smallville, JLA: When Worlds Collide, Milestone Forever,First Wave,Scott Pilgrim and Siege   Main We look at some of the genre TV pilots which are on the way.   Please support GS listener Kevin Hynes who along with his brother are shaving their heads to raise money for Cancer Research. Every little helps! https://www.stbaldricks.org/participants/khynes  

Welcome to Small Press Big Mouth Episode 16, your hosts Stace and Lee have news and reviews of Harker by Roger Gibson and Vince Danks, Road Crew, Axecop and Asterios Polyp. We also have a great chat about Richard Stark's Parker the Hunter by Darwyn Cooke! We hope you enjoy it!